Drawer knob



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Patented Mar. 18, 1924.

CHARLES G. OVERMYER, F HARTFORD CITY, INDIANA.

DRAWER KNOB.

Application filed .Tune 2.

T 0 all whom it may concern.:

Be it knownthat I, CHARLES G. OVER- Mrnn, Va citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford City, in the county 0f Blackford and State vof Indiana, have invented a new and useful Drawer Knob, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide novel means for attaching a knob and particularly io a glass knob to the Wall of a drawer or to any other object which is adapted to be provided with a. knob. Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for illuminating the knob.

lt is Within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of thattype to which the invention appertains.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view,

ac which will appear as the description pro-V cceds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafted described and claimed, it being understood that Within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

lin the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in section, a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Figure 2 is a rear elevation; Figure 3 is a section like Figure l, but showing a modification.

The numeral l denotes the front Wall of a drawer or any other object to which a knob may properly be applied, the wall having an opening 2. A knob is provided, the knob preferably being made of glass duced neck 4 defining a shoulder 5, the neck having a reduced stem 6, which is threaded. The shoulder 5 abuts against the forward surface of the wall l, the neck 4 fits closely in the opening 2 to aid in holding the knob securely in place, and the stem 6 is received in the opening 2. A sleeve 7, which may be made of metal, is disposed in the opening 2 and is mounted on the threaded'stem 6 of the knob. the sleeve being provided with anannular flange 8 at one end, the fian e 8 bearing against the inner surface of tige wall l. The fiange 8 is provided with projections adapted to engage the wall 1 and these projections may be made in various dii and including a body 3 provided with a re- 1921. Serial No. 474,499.

ways. If desired, openings 9 ma be punchedl in the flange, the resulting urrs l() forming the projections'above alluded to-` When the neck 4 and the stem 6 of the knob are inserted into the opening 2, and G0 when the steml is received in the sleeve 7, if rotation be imparted to the body 3 of the knob, the front wall l is bound between the shoulder 5 and the flange 8, the projectwns 10 biting into the wail l and 65 preventing the sleeve 7 from rotating.

hen a glass knob is mounted on a` drawer and when the drawer is closed, the knob 1s given a darkened appearance, be-

cause the interior of the drawer is dark.

One object of this invention is to provide novel means whereby such a darkening of the knob will be avoided.` With this end 1n view, a bore 11 is formed in the stem 6 and the neck 4 of the knob, the bore being 75 of successively decreasing diameters in order to form transverse surfaces 12. Reflecting material, such as mercury or white lead is placed in the bore 11 and cooperates with the surfaces 12 to increase 'the reflect-80 ing capacity thereof. The light passing through the body 3 will be reflected by the material 14 and, thus, the stem 4 and the neck 3 of the knob will be lighted up.

In the modification shown in Figure?) of S5 the drawings, partshereinbefore described have been designated by numerals previously used with the suffix a. The modification consists in omitting the bore l1 with its surfaces 12, and the reflecting material 14. i

l. A knob ofthe class described provided with an inner end portion, and means for' yholding said end portion` in an article, said end-portion being provided with an internal reflecting surface. v

2. A knob having a shoulder; and a sleeve whereinto a portion of the knob is threaded, the sleeve having a flange disposed in opposite relation to the shoulder, the flange having an eccentrically disposed projection extended toward the shoulder.

3. A knob of the class described provided in its inner end with a bore; and reflecting material in the bore.

4. A knob of the class described provided at its inner end with a bore of successively decreasing diameters defining a transverse reflecting surface; and reflecting material in U0 the bore and cooperating with the reecting my own, I have hereto affixed my signature surface. in the presence of two witnesses.

5 The combination with a drawer or the like, of a knob comprising a. portion eX- CHARLES G. OVERMYER. 5 ended thereinto, said portion of the knob Witnesses:

being provided with a reflecting surface. EARL LEAsoNER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as LEWIS REEMS. 

